01 February 2012

Sony Selects Its Video Games Chief as New Leader

Sony Selects Its Video Games Chief as New Leader
New York Times
TOKYO — Sony said Wednesday that it had tapped Kazuo Hirai, a savvy video game executive who led a turnaround at its PlayStation business, to be the company's next president and chief executive, a bid by the electronics and entertainment giant to ...

Microsoft Launches Kinect for Windows SDK
PC Magazine
By Chloe Albanesius Microsoft on Wednesday released its Kinect for Windows 1.0 SDK, which is intended to take the Kinect sensor technology beyond entertainment and use it for things like healthcare. At this point, the offering is focused more on ...

Apple: Piper's Munster Finds More Evidence TV Coming Soon
Forbes
Piper Jaffary analyst Gene Munster has been one the loudest and longest proponents of the notion that Apple is getting ready to enter the television business. And this morning he reports that there is more evidence to support his view that the company ...

Ukraine government websites attacked after piracy crackdown
Reuters
By Olzhas Auyezov | KIEV (Reuters) - The websites of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich and the former Soviet republic's interior ministry were put out of action on Wednesday as disgruntled Internet users hit back at the government after it shut ...

Group sets Guinness World Record for most Facebook posts
Fox News
A record-setting mystery? A group of Facebookers just set an unlikely world record last week, earning an official Guinness World Record for recording the most comments on a Facebook item: 1001552. And Tuesday morning, they mysteriously hid their record ...Fox News

Apple petitioners tell firm to protect Chinese workers
BBC News
An online petition, signed by 154000 people, has called on Apple to do more to ensure its Chinese factory workers are treated better. The campaign, on Change.org, follows reports of poor working conditions in factories that make Apple products.BBC News

Romanian cops cuff suspected serial hacker TinKode
Register
By John Leyden • Get more from this author Romanian police have arrested a man suspected of breaking into the websites of NASA and the Pentagon in a series of high-profile hack attacks. Razvan Manole Cernaianu, 20, from Timisoara, is accused of ...

Game's origins under increasing scrutiny
msnbc.com
By Matthew Hawkins It used to be that social game makers could lift ideas from one another, sometimes brazenly, and go about their business without much incident. Not anymore. Last week, Zynga was called out by Nimblebit, in an open letter filled with ...

"Alien" matter beyond solar system spotted by NASA probe
CBS News
For the very first time, a NASA spacecraft has detected matter from outside our solar system — material that came from elsewhere in the galaxy.. This so-called interstellar material was spotted by NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX), ...

Pirate Bay Founders Lose Supreme Court Appeal, Going to Jail
TIME
By Matt Peckham | @mattpeckham | February 1, 2012 | + Well that's it then, everyone out of the pool — Sweden's Supreme Court just announced it won't agree to hear an appeal by The Pirate Bay's founders, meaning the jail sentences and fines imposed by...TIME

Mint.com Launches Android Tablet App
TechCrunch
Mint.com, the financial service we first mentioned at TechCrunch40 in 2007 (wow, that seems like a long time ago), announced that they have launched a new native app specifically for 9 and 10 inch Android tablets running Honeycomb and Ice Cream ...TechCrunch

Seamicro unveils servers with low power Intel Xeon processors
Inquirer
By Shaun Nichols SERVER VENDOR Seamicro has unveiled a server range featuring Intel low power quad-core Xeon processors. The company claims the SM10000 is the most efficient Xeon-based system in the world, consuming half the power required by ...

Mind-reading breakthrough hailed by US scientists
Fox News
BERKELEY, Calif. – You may idly wish you could hear what others are thinking yet write off telepathy as science fiction. But one day, the ability to read people's minds may not be a talent reserved for psychics and the X-Men. A group of neuroscientists ...Fox News

Video: Swarm of Tiny Quadcopters Do a Delicate Dance
Popular Science
By Clay Dillow Posted 02.01.2012 at 10:03 am 1 Comment The GRASP Lab at the University of Pennsylvania is a perennial PopSci favorite. Yeah, yeah, we've all seen robotic quadcopter drones before. But these tiny, so-called “nano quadrotors” are kind of ...

Four rare wolf pups born at Smithsonian Institute
Washington Post (blog)
By Sylvia Carignan It's a dog-eat-dog world out there, even for the Smithsonian's adorable newborn wolf pups. “The mom tends to move the pups a lot, which can hurt them, and sometimes they do end up eating the pups,” a research biologist told the ...

Senate Democrats don't like the idea of a Netflix Facebook app
VentureBeat
Streaming video service Netflix recently appealed to a panel of US senators to update an old law that forbids the company from launching a Facebook application within the country. The antiquated law, the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), ...

Coal-fired project needs environmental review
Power Engineering Magazine
A judge ruled that a $2.8 billion, 895 MW coal-fired power plant cannot be built until there is an environmental review. According to the Associated Press, the recent decision follows a March 2011 ruling that said Rural Utilities Service, ...

Facebook app Bday Gift Finder launches with $2M in funding
VentureBeat
Finding the perfect gift for a friend's birthday can be tricky. Bday today launched the Bday Gift Finder, a Facebook app that scrapes your friends' profiles to recommend the perfect presents. And the company has already secured the best gift of all for ...

New Industry Alliance Targets Phishing And Spam
InformationWeek
The DMARC spec creates a set of wrapper specifications and procedures around SPF and DKIM, both of which have been around for many years. The goal is both to make them easier to work with on the recipient side, and to press large email senders to sign ...

The Simpsons Arcade delayed
PlayStation Universe
Sony's confirmed that it has delayed the release of retro title The Simpsons Arcade on PlayStation Network. The game was originally due to form part of the weekly PSN update today in Europe for PlayStation Plus subscribers, though for reasons unknown ...

The unhappiness of technology
By Jason Kottke
Over at The Wirecutter, Brian Lam writes about technology, journalism, happiness, and why "clicking the like button 1 billion times will never give you an orgasm or a hug or a high five". The first thing I did was to take back my time. I quit all the ...kottke.org

FIFA promise goalline technology decision in July - News ...
By Martin Lipton
FIFA last night announced a special meeting of the game's rule-making body, the International FA Board, will be held on July 2 to make a definitive decision on goalline technology. advertisement. Sepp Blatter, who spent his entire FIFA career ...
Mirror Football

New Mexico Daily Lobo :: Classroom technology receives mixed ...
By Jessica Hitch
Use of technology in the classroom is on the rise, and if it's up to UNM's Chief Information Officer, chalkboards will soon become obsolete. Chief Information Officer Gilbert Gonzales said his office administers student and faculty surveys each ...
New Mexico Daily Lobo

Recovery Lessons From a Traveling iPad - Technology - The ...
By Adam Martin
What is a social media editor without an iPad? Not much in this world. Perhaps that's why the story of how Reuters social media editor Anthony De Rosa lost and then recovered his expensive device is all over Twitter.
The Atlantic Wire

Technology Sale Agreement | Sample Legal Forms
By law
(i) The Technology in all versions and all forms of expression thereof, including but not limited to source code, object code, flow charts, and block diagrams, and documentation, previous versions, notes, other information relating to the ...
Sample Legal Forms

PRUDEN: When the Earth refuses to warm Washington Times The great warming phenomenon, which was supposed to have sent polar bears to vacation in Miami Beach by now, ended in 1997. Britain's Met Office, which tracks weather and makes forecasts, and the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit, ...Washington Times How to build your startup without learning code | VentureBeat By Tony Navarro How to build your startup without learning code. January 30, 2012 | Tony Navarro. View Comments. If you can't code but aspire to start a Web business, odds are you feel just like the ostrich. Ostriches can't fly, and to add insult to injury, they're ... VentureBeat